Table 1.
General and age adjusted prevalence rates of s-IBM in Istanbul/Turkey and their comparison with the rates in previous reports.
| Present sudy | Prevıous populatıon studıes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group A* | Group A+B** | Group A+B+C*** | Netherlands(3) | Western Australıa(5,2) | USA(6) (Conncticut) (Age >45) | |
| Authors | This study | Badrising et al. (2000) |
Phillips et al. (2000) (Needham et al. (2008)) |
Felice (2001) |
||
|
Prevalence (X10-6) |
0.7 (0.679) |
1.0 (1.056) |
1.9 (1.886) |
4.9 |
4.3 (14.9) |
10.7 |
| Age Adjusted Prevalence (X10-6) |
3.8 (3.834) |
6 (5.964) |
10.7 (10.651) |
16.0 |
35.3 (51.2) |
28.9 |
*
Group A: Most suggestive s-IBM
**
Group B: Probable s-IBM
***
Group C: Suspicious s-IBM